*toga*

n. [ Auto- + Gr. &unr_; marriage. ] (Bot.) Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. [ Gr. &unr_; closed (fr. &unr_; to shut) + ga`mos marriage. ] (Bot.) Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or . [ From Conestoga, Pennsylvania. ] A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. cryptogame. See Cryptogamia. ] (Bot.) A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. Henslow. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Cryptogamiæ [ NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden, secret + ga`mos marriage. ] (Bot.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The subdivisions have been variously arranged. The following arrangement recognizes four classes: -- I. Pteridophyta, or Vascular Acrogens. These include Ferns, Equiseta or Scouring rushes, Lycopodiaceæ or Club mosses, Selaginelleæ, and several other smaller orders. Here belonged also the extinct coal plants called Lepidodendron, Sigillaria, and Calamites. II. Bryophita, or Cellular Acrogens. These include Musci, or Mosses, Hepaticæ, or Scale mosses and Liverworts, and possibly Characeæ, the Stoneworts. III. Algæ, which are divided into Florideæ, the Red Seaweeds, and the orders Dictyoteæ, Oosporeæ, Zoosporeæ, Conjugatæ, Diatomaceæ, and Cryptophyceæ. IV. Fungi. The molds, mildews, mushrooms, puffballs, etc., which are variously grouped into several subclasses and many orders. The Lichenes or Lichens are now considered to be of a mixed nature, each plant partly a Fungus and partly an Alga. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in cryptogamic botany. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ento- + Gr. &unr_; the stomach. ] (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hepatic + gastric. ] (Anat.) See Gastrohepatic.

n. [ Octo- + Gr. &unr_; marriage. ] A marrying eight times. [ R. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Photo- + galvanography. ] The art or process of making photo-electrotypes. Sir D. Brewster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pneumato- + -gram. ] (Physiol.) A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth + E. gastric. ] Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. E. Togas L. Togae [ L., akin to tegere to cover. See Thatch. ] (Rom. Antiq.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga praetexta. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Toga praetexta. [ L. ], a toga with a broad purple border, worn by children of both sexes, by magistrates, and by persons engaged in sacred rites. -- ‖
Toga virilis [ L. ], the manly gown; the common toga. This was assumed by Roman boys about the time of completing their fourteenth year. [ 1913 Webster ]